Bernie Sanders actually said...

"I think that almost everybody in this country, some exceptions, should have the right to choose between the private insurance company and a public plan. That's what I'm going to fight for."

"The time has come to afford all Americans equal protection under the law, to provide all Americans the dignity and respect they deserve."

"The Employment Non-Discrimination Act of 2009 (ENDA), of which I am a cosponsor, is not only an appropriate but a necessary step towards guaranteeing the civil rights of all Americans."

"I think in Vermont, and I am sure in Philadelphia, most people do not think it makes a lot of sense every year to be spending hundreds of billions of dollars making the sheiks in Saudi Arabia a little..."